BARBRI: With you, every step of your legal career
Learning never stops. Whether you're a qualified lawyer, a law student or a legal professional, developing your professional and personal skills is essential to boost your career. BARBRI has been offering professional development courses for 45 years, and our team of qualified lawyers and educators are constantly creating new skills courses to help you stay ahead in today's legal environment, wherever you are across the globe.
Foundations in Law
Foundations in Law is an online course designed to help you familiarise yourself with the study of law in England and Wales. It introduces you to the common law system, legal terminology and concepts, and legal research. It is perfect for anyone interested in law, but more specifically, ideal for non-law graduates and qualified lawyers from other jurisdictions who want to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). The course is available on demand, or it can be bundled with a BARBRI SQE1 Prep course.
Online Legal Life Skills Courses (Global)
Law firms and their clients want legal professionals who are well rounded and equipped with the right skills and behaviours to meet industry and professional expectations. Our series of short, online courses and live masterclasses are specifically designed based on feedback from our law firm and industry partners. We know these are the skills that matter to them, and we know these skills will help you to feel more confident and advance in your career. They're affordable, highly practical and globally applicable. Click here for more details: BARBRI's Legal Life Skills.
Advocacy
Skills
- The more you develop your advocacy skills, the better they will serve you, your firm and your clients. We help you to settle disputes out of court through arbitration and mediation, as well as to prepare for advocacy and handling expert witnesses should you need to go to court.
BusinessSkills
- It is not enough to be able to think like a lawyer, you also need to think like a businessperson. From creating a business development strategy, client engagement and networking to drafting contracts, our business courses will help you embed the necessary skills to help you grow.
Communication Skills
- In this range of communication courses and masterclasses, we focus on essential communication skills for young lawyers, such as conducting meetings and presentations, effective business- and report-writing, and negotiating, from your style and approach to closing the deal.
Management
Skills
- Right from the start of your legal career, you'll need to work on your time- and stress-management skills, understand how to work within a team, and learn how to effectively manage projects. These courses and masterclasses will help you improve these essential management skills.
Virtual Live Courses (England & Wales)
We have been delivering top-quality legal training to solicitor trainees and qualified solicitors for 45 years, covering Litigation, Higher Rights of Audience, the Professional Skills Course, and various continued professional development (CPD) courses. Click on one of the course topics below, or learn more about our public training courses and bespoke training here: Altior
Personal & Professional Development
- Personal and professional development courses, from Business Development & Networking and Commercial Awareness to Presenting with Confidence and Dealing with Difficult People.
Management & Leadership
- We offer a variety of courses to help you manage yourself, manage others, and managing the firm.
Litigation Programme
- Designed for solicitor trainees in England and Wales who haven't done a contentious seat, this course is equally suitable for any law student or professional who want to gain litigation skills.
Higher Rights of Audience
- Our supplementary four-day training course covers the various essential aspects of England and Wales' Crown Court and High Court preparation and advocacy to stand you in good stead as an advocate in the higher courts.